DHAKA, Bangladesh — A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and one of her close aides to death on charges of crimes against humanity for her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed hundreds of people and led to the toppling of her 15-year rule.

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Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity

The Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal found her guilty of a deadly crackdown on a student uprising last year

Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan also received a death sentence

Both fled to India and were sentenced in absentia

The International Crimes Tribunal based in Dhaka, the capital, sentenced Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death fo

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